The lineup includes the likes of Ken Doctor, former paidContent editor Staci Kramer, Wall Street Journal digital director Raju Narisetti, Street Fight co-founders David Hirschman and Laura Rich, and so on. It's worth checking out if you're into that sort of thing.

In the pre-streaming era, music writing had a function for the listener, providing context about a record's sounds (which Robert Christgau cheekily condensed as "Consumer Guide") as well as the artistic vision behind it. As we go into 2013, there's almost too much context — from streaming albums to artist tweets to comments in the iTunes Store and beyond — and music writers become just another voice, shouting above the fray to be heard. Turning that chaos into a conversation that spans fans of all genres and artists, and that connects people in surprising ways, should be a goal among writers and editors in 2013 — even if doing so means to first have a radical rethinking about the ways of building an audience and a media business.